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August 1, 2006

When Will You Run Out Of Gmail Storage Space?

If Gmail storage grows at a rate of about 0.33 MB per day and you use the space the same as before, is there a chance you'll run out of space? Use this simple calculator to find out (type the date in this format: Month/Day/Year).

Update (October 2007): Gmail increased the rate of growth, so if you use Gmail for a long time or you didn't use too much storage, it's likely you'll see the answer "never".

33 comments:

No offense, but I think this is a bit off. It told me I will never run out of space, but then I changed the numbers. When I said that I had used 9999 mb, it told me it would be like 150 years before I ran out.

a problem i see is that this calculator seems to assume my increase in storage needs has been linear over time. More likely, I am using more and more additional storage as time passes. Maybe I was increasing by 2 or 3Mb the first months, but now I am probably increasing at a rate of around 10Mb/months. And this number will keep growing.

Yes... But tbh, if you really think hard about it... No ones inbox usage will be linear. I might not have any email for a year. Then it wont be accurate. Or I might get suddenly spammed by advertisers. Or even worse, I might loose my password and can no longer check what my usage is and cant check it on the calculator.

What if someone accidently was sent a mp3 file in their inbox one day a month, but their mate accidently sent them two copies. Whoopsie, there goes 8mb, 4mb more than linear expansion.

I would also like to see someone who has an account thats soon to run out, because I believe (Unless you been using your account for file storage) that no one can use 2.75GB and counting in email space.

Oh and btw, the script doesnt cater for people who had GMAIL before 1/4/2004.

Therefore, this calculator is good fun in a way, although in a practical sense its err...

Come on all of you, this is no kind of oracle or something. It is simple calculator that approximates when will you run out of space if you use it as up to now. Of course it is not exact, it is approximation tool and I think it is great idea. Although very simple. It tells me I will run out of space in 2008 (I am mailing large attachments quite often)

I have no idea whether the tool is accurate or not - I'm quite happy to have been told that my account will be full on the 22nd April 2174. Assuming I do actually live that long I'll be 202 years old, by which point I'll be more worried about whether I can still go to the toilet than whether my GMail account is about to run out of space...

Lets face it... Month Day Year is a more practical format as long as you are representing the month in letters, not numbers. Simply put, you never start a sentence with a number in English grammar.

Your date format is not right because others AGREE with you, it is wrong because I SAY it is wrong. (for those logically impaired… People agreeing with you doesn’t support your claim, and if your claim is on disputable grounds anyone who objects to it instantly invalidates your claim (Of course, the same can be said for me… meaning that neither date format is the best format). The reason so many people USE that date format is because of the INFLUNCE of greedy corporations. Her name is Globalization... and she is after our sovereignty.

As for those “never” people… look at this intelligently, if rate of gain is greater than the rate of loss there will never be any “loss”. NaN means not a number… probably an error in his date calculator. February 29th exists… every three years. Again, date calculator… probably rushed and didn’t spend that much time (although, what is hard with making a date calculator?).

Okay Idea... but we 'all' know how gmail REALLY works. It's like a bank... it gives out money it doesn't have and will REFUSE to give some to you if you request too much.

Just messing around and found this interesting calculator. Personally I think technology increases will make this calculator obsolete by the time it predicts that I will run out of space! I'm glad though, that I have a good chance of still being alive by the time this happens!

I have been using gmail since 2005. I keep all my emails on record -- sent and received. I now am told I do not have any more space left -- I still receive messages, but cannot send any more messages. What do I do?

(1) delete some of your unimportant large messages. Use the advanced search to find messages that have attachments and delete some of them.

(2) create a new Gmail account. Set the option to auto-forward all the messages from the old account to the new account and add the old email account in Settings / Accounts / Send mail as. You'll receive all the messages to the new address and you'll be able to send messages using the old address.